Have you spoken to your Dr with regard to your anxiety and stress? Perhaps getting some medical help could be a possibility for you. As your fear is all psychological and can be helped. Is your anxiety level strictly related to your hearing loss? Or does it effect other areas of your life as well?
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Hearing aids are not a ācureā for your hearing loss, but will help you hear better if fitted properly and you wear them.
At this stage of your hearing loss journey, you are panicking over every little detail you can think of. Even if 20+ yrs into the future you can get more powerful HAās than what you require now, but this is way into the future.
My speech recognition was as low as 26%. Others on the forum are worse. Further help is available, I had a cochlear implant my speech recognition is now 94%. So when your WRS gets severe enough further help is available if you ever need it.
You are very lucky you can hear some high frequencies, as I canāt hear any. Many others on this forum canāt hear high frequencies either. I had to give up playing pipes as I couldnāt blow a true pitch anymore. I couldnāt hear what pitch/tone the person next to me was blowing.
I can understand your anxiety about your hearing loss as it directly relates to your career. If you canāt hear you wonāt have a career or salary coming in. Do try to stress less, as your not helping yourself with all this anxiety you carry in your head.